2008年12月18日星期四

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French leader says Madoff scandal justifies reform (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 03:34 AM CST

AP - Bernard Madoff's alleged $50 billion investment fraud demonstrates the absolute necessity of better regulation of financial sectors, the French prime minister said Thursday.

French first lady wins damages over nude bags (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 03:32 AM CST

AP - A French court has ordered a clothing firm to pay euro40,000 ($56,200) in damages for distributing bags bearing a nude image of France's first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.

Pound dives to record low under 1.07 euros (AFP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 03:25 AM CST

The pound sank further towards parity against the European single currency on Thursday, sliding under 1.07 euros for the first time.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - The pound sank further towards parity against the European single currency on Thursday, sliding under 1.07 euros for the first time.

UN judges rule that Karadzic has no legal immunity (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 03:25 AM CST

AP - UN judges say an immunity deal Radovan Karadzic claims he made with a US peace envoy would not prevent the former Bosnian Serb leader's trial on charges including genocide.

BA, Qantas fail in global airline merger bid (AFP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 03:17 AM CST

A Qantas aircraft (left) is pictured beside British Airways aircraft at Heathrow airport in early December. British Airways has announced that merger talks with Qantas Airways had failed, with the two sides unable to agree on key terms.(AFP/File/Chris Ratcliffe)AFP - Australia's Qantas Airways and British Airways said Thursday that their talks on a planned merger to form a global carrier worth an estimated 6.0 billion US dollars had ended without agreement.

In Iraq, Brown says mission to end by May (AFP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 02:55 AM CST

This photo released by the Iraqi Prime Minister's office shows Prime Minister Gordon Brown (L) and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki during a press conference in Baghdad. British forces will wrap up their mission in Iraq by the end of May, Brown said during a surprise visit to the country on Wednesday.(AFP/IPMO-HO)AFP - British forces will wrap up their mission in Iraq by the end of May, Prime Minister Gordon Brown is expected to tell the House of Commons later on Thursday.

Piven leaves "Speed-the-Plow" and blames mercury count (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 02:46 AM CST

Reuters - Actor Jeremy Piven has abruptly left the hit Broadway revival of David Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow," blaming a high mercury count, Daily Variety reported in its Thursday edition.

London shares stable at open (AFP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 02:43 AM CST

The London stock market fell slightly in early trade on Thursday after closing up marginally the day before as traders mulled a sharp fall in oil prices said to be a sign of deeper economic woes.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - The London stock market fell slightly in early trade on Thursday after closing up marginally the day before as traders mulled a sharp fall in oil prices said to be a sign of deeper economic woes.

Mandelson says considering Jaguar Land Rover bailout (AFP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 02:23 AM CST

A Jaguar sign is seen in front of a Jaguar/Land Rover dealership in Utica, Michigan. Business Secretary Peter Mandelson said Wednesday the government had held talks with Jaguar Land Rover about a possible bailout, but stressed that no decisions had yet been reached.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Bill Pugliano)AFP - Business Secretary Peter Mandelson has said that the government has held talks with Jaguar Land Rover about a possible bailout, but stressed that no decisions have yet been reached.

EADS boss says group must now protect cash reserves (AFP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 02:23 AM CST

The head of the European aerospace group EADS, Louis Gallois, pictured,said Thursday that AFP - The head of the European aerospace group EADS, Louis Gallois, said Thursday that "in the coming months our highest priority is to protect our cash reserves" of nine billion euros (13 billion dollars).

British folk musician Davy Graham dies (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 01:11 AM CST

AP - Virtuoso guitarist Davy Graham, a leading figure in Britain's 1960s folk music revival, has died. He was 68.

British biplane hits cow on emergency landing (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 05:00 PM CST

AP - A British pilot says he ran into an unusual hazard while making an emergency landing — a cow.

Russian treason bill could target Kremlin critics (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 02:18 PM CST

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking at a meeting in Moscow, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Pool)AP - Under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, people who fraternized with foreigners or criticized the Kremlin were "enemies of the people" and sent to the gulag. Now there's new legislation backed by Vladimir Putin's government that human rights activists say could throw Russia back to the days of the Great Terror.

Sarkozy acts for ethnic diversity (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 01:38 PM CST

French President Nicolas Sarkozy delivers a speech focusing on equal chances and promotion of social diversity at Polytechnique School, one of France major schools, in Palaiseau, a Paris suburb, Wednesday Dec.17, 2008. Board reads: Equal chances and diversity. (AP Photo/Eric Feferberg; Pool)AP - President Nicolas Sarkozy, impatient with what he said was the slow pace of promoting diversity in France, announced measures Wednesday to put more ethnic minorities on TV screens, in political parties and in elite schools.

Turkish PM says he won't apologize to Armenians (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 12:37 PM CST

AP - Turkey's prime minister on Wednesday said he will not join a group of Turkish intellectuals who issued an apology on the Internet for the World War I-era massacres of Armenians in Turkey.

Vet of famed WWII unit honored on 103rd birthday (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 11:43 AM CST

Photographs of World War II veteran Aleksander Szekal and his unit are displayed at his home in the village of Ivyanets, some 70 kilometers (44 miles) northwest of Minsk, Belarus, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008. Tortured by Stalin's henchmen and attacked by Hitler's forces, Szekal almost became one of World War II's millions of victims. But he survived the Soviet Gulag and a famous battle against the Nazis, and was honored on his 103rd birthday this week as the oldest living veteran of a celebrated Polish unit that helped defeat Hitler's army in Italy. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)AP - Tortured by Stalin's henchmen and attacked by Hitler's forces, Aleksander Szekal almost became one of World War II's millions of victims.

Police added after explosives found in Paris store (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 11:41 AM CST

Security guards at the Printemps department store check customers' bags, at the store's entrance, in Paris, Wednesday Dec. 17, 2008. A pack of old dynamite sticks was found Tuesday at the Printemps store. The scare was claimed by the 'Afghan Revolutionary Front,' a name not previously known to French police and intelligence officials. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)AP - France is adding hundreds of police to Paris streets and stepping up checks at train stations and large shops after a previously unknown group claimed that it planted explosives at a major department store, the interior minister said Wednesday.

Ex-Kosovo minister guilty of witness intimidation (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 10:49 AM CST

AP - The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal sentenced a former Kosovo minister to five months in prison Wednesday for intimidating a witness in the case against his country's former prime minister.

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